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Scope of application

The data protection statement applies to all Pro Helvetia websites. Compliance with data protection regulations by third party websites to which Pro Helvetia’s websites are connected via a link cannot be guaranteed.

Data protection

Based on article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and on the Federal data protection regulations, every person is entitled to protection of their privacy and protection against improper use of their personal data. Pro Helvetia adheres to these provisions. Personal data are treated with strict confidentiality and are neither sold nor disclosed to third parties.

In close cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavour to protect our databases as best possible from unauthorised access, loss, abuse and falsification.

When our website is accessed, the following data are saved in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and general information about the operating system or browser. These usage data constitute the basis for anonymous statistical evaluations, which allows Pro Helvetia to identify trends and improve its offerings accordingly.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are temporarily or permanently stored on your computer when you access this website. The cookies are employed primarily for analysing the use of this website, which enables Pro Helvetia to carry out statistical evaluations and ongoing improvements.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by activating the appropriate setting in your browser software. Please note, however, that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses its own cookies, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will, as a rule, be transmitted to and stored by Google on a server in the United States.

You have the possibility of deactivating Google Analytics and thereby preventing the data transfer to Google by installing Opt Out-Add-On for your browser.

Further information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics can be found in the Google privacy policy.

Google Maps

By using Google Maps, information regarding your use of this website (including your IP address) may be transferred to and stored on a Google server in the USA. Google may transfer this information to third parties provided this is required by law or such third parties process these data on behalf of Google.

You have the option of deactivating the Google Map service and thereby preventing the transfer of data to Google. To do so, you need to deactivate JavaScript in your browser. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this website.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar (Hotjar Ltd., St. Julians Business Centre, 3 Elia Zammit Street, St. Julians STJ 1000, Malta) for surveys and website analytics. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.

YouTube

We use YouTube’s “privacy-enhanced mode” to embed videos. As a result, a cookie is stored on your computer only when the video is actually played. According to YouTube, these cookies do not contain any personal information. If you want to make quite sure that no data of yours are stored with YouTube, please do not click on the embedded videos.

Further information on the handling of user data at YouTube can also be found in the Google privacy policy.